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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That caped cavalier in the knee boots and curls is Rex Harrison, all dressed up like French Minister Colbert in his current film Behind the Iron Mask. The picture, which is being made in Vienna, is based on the Alexandre Dumas story of rival twin brothers, swashbuckling musketeers and beautiful maidens. Among the maidens is Dutch-born Sylvia Kristel, whose face and other features graced the 1974 soft-porn picture Emmanuelle. This time Sylvia keeps her shirt on, however, which might account for Rex's gentlemanly critique of his costar. "I admire Miss Kristel for her education," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 29, 1976 | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

First Tie. Son of an iron miner, Perpich is a fire-and-brimstone populist from northern Minnesota. As a boy, he shared a bed with two younger brothers. He delights in recalling that on his wedding day in 1954, his father Anton told him to leave behind "that pen you got when you left the eighth grade-one of your brothers can use it." Perpich became a dentist and was elected in 1962 to the state senate, where he pushed mining companies to pay more state taxes and reclaim pit-mined land. Predicted Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Musical Chairs | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

Golf was played with one all-purpose club until irons--called rut irons--were pioneered to excavate featheries from tracks and ruts. The gutty fostered the invention of the cleek, about the equivalent of the modern 2-iron...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Five Centuries of Biodegradable Golf | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...Morris, the winner of four British Opens, introduced the niblick for pitch shots. The great J. H. Taylor mastered the mashie or modern 5-iron which derived its name "from its effect on the ball when entrusted to unskillful hands...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Five Centuries of Biodegradable Golf | 11/18/1976 | See Source »

...mother ran a beauty parlor. He attended twelve schools by the time he was 15, and was thrown out of most of them. "I was into J.D.," says Stallone. "If I saw a housefly on the hood of a car, I'd stamp him out with an iron pipe. A very nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Italian Stallion | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

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